# Mistral 7B vs Wizardlm 70b

> Wizardlm 70b is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/mistral-7b-vs-wizardlm-70b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Mistral 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Wizardlm 70b in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Wizardlm 70b leads 32.2 to 8.1.

## Snapshot

| | Mistral 7B | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 23.0 | 33.0 |
| Rank | 351 | 249 |
| Context | 8K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.25 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Mistral 7B: 26.4 (#326)
- Wizardlm 70b: 31.4 (#285)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1082 | 1081 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 19.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 27.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 36% | — |
| MBPP+ | 42.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Mistral 7B: 13.1 (#336)
- Wizardlm 70b: 20.7 (#234)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1067 | 1079 |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 42.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | 47.1% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 56.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 112.21 | — |
| HellaSwag | 81% | — |
| PIQA | 83% | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.3% | — |

## Math

- Mistral 7B: 8.1 (#325)
- Wizardlm 70b: 32.2 (#218)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1085 | 1116 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 0.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 3.7% | — |
| GSM8K | 54.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Mistral 7B: 7.4 (#311)
- Wizardlm 70b: —

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 15.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.6% | — |
| BoolQ | 87.4% | — |
| MMLU | 62.5% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 79.8% | — |
| TriviaQA | 75.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Mistral 7B: 25.8 (#283)
- Wizardlm 70b: 29.6 (#265)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1012 | 1078 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1009 | 1052 |
| LMArena German | 987 | 1083 |
| LMArena Russian | 1018 | 1155 |
| LMArena French | 1037 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 878 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1026 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Mistral 7B: 54.2 (#280)
- Wizardlm 70b: 56.3 (#273)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1060 | 1093 |

## Long Context

- Mistral 7B: 32.2 (#271)
- Wizardlm 70b: 33.3 (#263)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1060 | 1097 |

## Writing & Preference

- Mistral 7B: 30.7 (#286)
- Wizardlm 70b: 34.8 (#269)

| Benchmark | Mistral 7B | Wizardlm 70b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1090 | 1120 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1068 | 1149 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1062 | 1108 |

## FAQ

### Is Mistral 7B better than Wizardlm 70b?

Wizardlm 70b is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.0 to 23.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Mistral 7B or Wizardlm 70b better for coding?

Wizardlm 70b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.4 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Mistral 7B and Wizardlm 70b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mistral 7B has 37 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 70b has 12.
